Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 12 June 2024
Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport And Media
Engagement with Chairperson to the Board of RTÉ
Ms Eimear Cusack:
I am not aware of that figure at all.
Can I make one point? We have adopted in RTÉ a policy of employment first since 2019. In the main, people come into RTÉ on employment contracts, whether fixed-term or ongoing. The contractors we have in place today are, in the main, contributors to sport across radio and television, sports pundits, etc. We are very conscious of how we engage people coming into the organisation and of the work going on at the moment with the Workplace Relations Commission, the Department of Social Protection and Revenue on the new code of practice, which we will adopt in full. There are a number in different circumstances but people providing services are in the main contributors, rather than people working five days per week or 365 days per year. That is not what is in place.
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